System Design Engineer - HVDC

Job Description

HCL is a $11 billion leading global technology enterprise consisting of over 200,000 professionals operating from 52 countries. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. For more on HCL, please visit www.hcl.com

Role Summary/Purpose - This role is designed to interpret the customer’s technical enquiry and to design the most cost-effective overall solution for an HVDC installation utilizing the PES power electronics solutions, aiming to minimizing the total cost, and to specify the main (high-value) items of bought-out equipment. The successful candidate will be involved in the development and industrialization of solutions tools and processes and will have technical knowledge in the field of power system engineering (academic or professional).

Essential Responsibilities

Main Circuit Design - Develop an integrated scheme design that meets the Customer’s needs, by developing requirements on the ratings and functionalities of the different HVDC system’s subsystems, in an

optimised and cost-effective manner.

Insulation Coordination Studies - Determine the temporary and transient overvoltage stresses on HV equipment and provide the protective level requirements for the surge arresters.

Equipment Lifecycle Management - Manage the lifecycle of high economic value High Voltage equipment such as power transformers, instrument transformers, reactors, capacitors and surge arresters, covering the development of its requirements, specification, supplier management and the validation and verification (testing) of design, manufacturing and commissioning.

Preparation of equipment technical specification

Review of the supplier documents

o Equipment Data Sheet / GTP

o Inspection and Test Plans (ITP)

o Review Type Test reports / documents

o Review Routine Test Reports

o Operation and Maintenance Manual

Qualifications / Requirements - • Holder of a Master of Engineering degree or equivalent from an accredited institution, including Electrical Power Systems and Power Electronics subjects.

• Proven substantial knowledge and practical experience in performing the specific aspects of design, implementation and testing of High Voltage AC or DC power transmission schemes and equipment.

Proficiency in

• HVDC domain knowledge

• High voltage equipment specification, design and testing (e.g., power transformers, reactors, capacitors, switchgear, instrumentation transformers and transducers, surge arresters, bushings and insulators);

• Reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) assessment and management

• Electrical power systems modelling and analysis.

• Insulation co-ordination

Aware of

• Circuit analysis

• Power control

• Reactive power design

• HVDC valves and their control systems.

Awareness of Technical Domain Tools

• Power Network Analysis (PSS/E, DigSilent, Eurostag)

• EMT Software (PSCAD, EMTP-RV, ATP)

• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

• MATLAB & Simulink.

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